Leipzig: Verlag Quelle & Meyer, 1926. First Edition. 4to, 240pp + publisher's ads; original printed wrappers. A nice copy of this early work by Picht and Rosenstock on adult education. Loosely inserted is a moderately worn copy of Rosenstock's 1930 offprint from Jahrbuch für Erwachsenenbildung titled "Die Arbeitslager innerhalb der..... More

Andernach: Burn Again Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo, unpag.; light green boards with printed labels on front cover and spine. One of fifty numbered copies signed by Bukowski, the entire edition, published ostensibly in the town of his birth in Germany and marking his seventieth birthday. One of Bukowski's scarcer..... More

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. First Edition. 8vo, 144pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 400 numbered copies handbound in boards, signed by Bukowski, and with an original signed color serigraph portrait of Bukowski by R. Crumb bound in at the front. More

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo, 283pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 750 hardcover trade copies (there were also 350 numbered and signed hardcover copies), this one has been signed by Bukowski on the title page. More

Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery; for T. Cadell, et al. 1802. First Edition. 4to, [uv], i-iv, [1]-487pp; 19th-century marbled boards with gilt calf spine and corners; a.e.g. Account of the life of the Renaissance humanist responsible for the rescue of important works of classical literature. Most notably, Poggio found the..... More

Berlin/Leipzig: Deutsche Akademie der Künste/VEB Graphische Werkstatten, (1963). Small 4to, 88pp; stiff printed card covers. An East German trade edition of the suite originally published in 1921 in a limited edition of original prints. Here, the suite is augmented by the inclusion of other related sketches and preparatory versions of..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, (1983). First Edition. 8vo, 287pp; black cloth. A pristine copy of Rushdie's third novel, following on the Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children. This copy is signed by Rushdie on the title page, and has the publisher's "with compliments" slip laid in. More

Tokyo: Shinchosa, 1954. First Edition. 8vo, 240pp; original yellow cloth with attractive suminagashi endpapers. Scarce first edition of one of Mishima's most celebrated novels -- a shorter version was published later in the same year. This volume appeared as the fourth in the publisher's series of featured novels by contemporary..... More

London: Chatto & Windus, (1873). First Edition. 8vo, 483pp; original brown cloth gilt. A history of the English book trade through stories of individual firms. With the ownership stamp (on the title page) and bookplate (on the front pastedown) of Egerton Castle, writer, antiquarian, and champion fencer who was captain..... More

[Winston Salem, NC]: Palaemon Press Limited, 1982. Broadside, approx. 9 X 12-1/2 in., printed on one side only in two colors. Separate edition of the poem that appeared in the collection From the First Nine, one of an unspecified number of copies, signed by the poet. More

Moscow: Typography OGES, 1922. First Edition. 8vo, 35pp pamphlet in printed wrappers. The last work by the Russian futurist poet, an experimental poem/play written between 1920 and 1922. The cover art is by P.M., i.e. Petr Miturich, the artist friend of Khlebnikov who helped him see this book into print..... More

Warren, Ohio: Fantome Press, (1989). First Edition. 8vo, unpag. chapbook in printed wrappers, saddle-stitched with a red cord; housed in matching printed envelope. One of 300 numbered copies (16), the entire edition of this title poem from a forthcoming collection. Illustrated with an original woodblock print by William Mullaney, signed..... More